US leather percussion cap box with double sewn loops (missing) and US stamped into outer flap. The percussion cap box was worn on the right front of the soldiers belt and held copper percussion caps. The caps contained mercury fulminate and made a...

Two Confedrete buttons recovered fom the Sequatchie River Valley and one civilian coin button. The button on the left is a cast brass "I" button. The "I" stood for Infantry. The button on the right bears the Georgia state seal. State buttons were...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. With the arrival of his family, Grant was relocating to the residence of Mrs. J. T. Dunlap at 2 McLemore Street. Craighead's father received a visit from Grant arranging to pay his...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. Craighead notes that General Grant's wife and child have traveled to Nashville by train to live with him. They will be relocating to the residence of Mrs. J. T. Dunlap at 2...

Rectangular CSA belt plates made of pewter were occasionally issued to Confederate soldiers in the Army of Tennessee. This broken piece from a pewter belt plate was recovered from Sequatchie County, Tennessee.

Order issued by Federal 1st Lieutenant G. W. Anderdown that all in his command be prohibited from wasting ammunition, destroying fencing and garden trucks, or other depredations. The bell was to be rung for morning and night roll calls and...

This model 1859 Sharps carbine is in relic condition. It was found in the trunk of an old car in the 1960s. The Sharps carbine was the most commonly used carbine by the Federal cavalry and was also used on occasion by Confederate cavalry. The...

On the left is a .58 caliber minie ball with an iron "worm." On the right is a .58 caliber minie ball with the ball puller shown above it. All of the items were recovered from Sequatchie County, Tenn. and they demonstrate the two methods for...

This handwritten order reads, " I order that W. H. Willis keep a bay hors (sic) with a ball (sic) face & two white hors feet as we have taken one & left this" and was signed "C. Brixey, Capt. Comdg, 1st Indept. Co. Tenn. Cavl." Brixey served as a...

This group of dug relics includes grape shot, minie balls, Smith carbine bullet, a Confederate Gardner bullet, Sharps, Burnside, and Spencer bullets and pistol rounds. Also exhibited are casings from Burnside and Spencer cartridges, a sword belt...

These relics were recovered from Sequatchie County and include a bayonet, forks, spoons, rivets, bayonet scabbard tips, keys, jaw harps, drum stick holder, side plate from a Sharps carbine, end barrel band from an unknown musket, an Enfield trigger...

Sgt. Grayson was from Shirleytown in Marion County, TN and served in Co. I, 10th Tenn. Inf. USA. He was mustered in at Nashville and did post and garrison duty there until ordered to Bridgeport, Ala. In September 1863. Later he did guard duty on...